The T-shirts Status purchased from the official Fox News store. (Photo by Status)
Over the past week, no one has waved the flag for Donald Trump’s trade war more aggressively than Fox News. The network’s primetime MAGA megaphones have rallied behind Trump’s tariffs, hailing them as bold, America-first measures to resurrect domestic manufacturing. Trump is "sticking up for the American worker,” Greg Gutfeld proclaimed on “The Five”—a line he delivered with maximal conviction. Jesse Watters, meanwhile, blasted Democrats for policies that moved jobs overseas, all while sitting next to a graphic that declared “AMERICAN WORKERS ABANDONED.”
But when it comes to its own business practices, Fox News is failing to put its money where its mouth is. Despite its fiery pro-American worker rhetoric, the network isn’t putting America first when it comes to much of its own merchandise. The Fox News online store sells apparel and other branded goods aimed at its loyal audience, but many of those products aren’t made in the good ol’ USA.
Earlier this week, we ordered three T-shirts from the official Fox News store (yes, it did pain us to send a few bucks into Rupert Murdoch’s coffers, even though we used a discount code). When they arrived on Thursday afternoon, each one bore a tag with…
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